Resource A Century of Impact: Lessons From The Kresge Foundation’s Transformative Urban Approach October 9, 2025 This landmark report “100 Years of Grantmaking” distills powerful insights from Kresge’s 2024 Centennial Convenings, offering a blueprint for equitable urban transformation. This comprehensive analysis reveals how sustainable community development emerges at the intersection of multisectoral collaboration, community self-determination, and innovative philanthropic practice. Through compelling case studies from Detroit, Houston,…
News & Views Birth Detroit promotes a community vision for families with affirming maternal and infant care October 8, 2025 On Detroit’s northwest side, a new chapter in maternal and family health is unfolding. Birth Detroit, the city’s first freestanding birth center, is more than a health facility. It is a space built with love, guided by community vision, and centered on the well-being of mothers, babies and families. For…
News & Views Saunteel Jenkins rejoins Kresge Foundation Board of Trustees October 8, 2025 The Kresge Foundation Board of Trustees today announced the reappointment of Detroit nonprofit leader Saunteel Jenkins to serve on the private, national foundation’s governing body. A lifelong Detroiter, Jenkins has dedicated her entire career to underserved populations and communities through nonprofit leadership and public service. She was most recently the…
Resource Rethinking assumptions and community resilience financing tools in the face of growing climate loss and risk September 29, 2025 In communities across the country, the weather is not just extreme, but relentless. Floods are getting stronger and lasting longer; wildfires are bigger and harder to control; and hurricanes are intensifying rapidly. The country has made progress in raising awareness and developing strategies for climate adaptation, but financing resilience is…
News & Views Rapson: Community safety in Memphis requires community-based effort September 25, 2025 In yet one more unilateral decision to activate National Guard forces in the name of public safety to majority Black cities led by Black mayors, the administration last week announced that the next destination would be Memphis. It appears that the well-choreographed and visible anticipatory planning for resistance by Chicago’s…